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Dear all RGS-IBG 2018 Annual Conference, Cardiff, 28-31 August Exploring relationships: narratives, spaces and normativities? Sponsored by the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group (GCYFRG) and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) Organised by Raksha Pande and Peter Hopkins, Newcastle University This session will focus on relationships in terms of their analytical potential to understand identity, place and difference in multicultural societies. We are interested in exploring diverse forms of relationship narratives, spaces and normativities; we are also eager to focus on how relationship stories related to dating, marriage, friendship, family, intergenerationality, gender and sexualities can reveal the contested nature of household formation and family dynamics as well as broader debates relating to multicultural citizenship and everyday senses of belonging. Taking narratives, spaces and normativities as a point of departure - this session invites papers that explore the different ways in which young people from diverse religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds tell stories about their personal relationships and in so doing contest normative constructions of family, sexuality and intimacy. Papers can focus on (though need not be limited to) the following themes: - Marriage and intimacy - Dating, friendship, Romantic love and intimacy - Minority religious and black and minority ethnic marriages and matchmaking practices - Normative and non-normative relationship practices - Personal relationships, young masculinities, femininities and sexualities - Multicultural Citizenship, belonging and intimacy - Intergenerational relationships and the family - Social media and relationships Please emails abstracts to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] by 13th February 2018.